Hello Monks,
yet another problem on which I need your advice. I am trying to use the Text::Levenshtein module authored by Dree Mistrut from CPAN, to calculate the Levenshtein distance between two strings.

I could of course email the author, but I thought I would post it here too.

The module seems to work with ASCII strings e.g the following strings in the Times New Roman font(ascii) 
test
tent
distane:1

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But I need to work with a font for another language(Not English). I need to work with the AS-TTDurga font for Assamese which uses ISCII encoding.

So my ISCII strings would look like this if I set the font to Times New Roman (I compose my ISCII text in a word processor that supports the AS-TTDurga font,save as text in say in a Notepad file.) 
]» 
]»]»
distance:0

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When I use this module for any two ISCII strings, I keep getting distance between the strings=0 which is not the result I need.

In the AS-TTDurga font, a single letter(vowel/consonant), may sometimes be mapped to two or more ascii characters, e.g. 
letter a in my font =  ascii chars sd
letter b in my font =  ascii chars !#

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So for the string ab, I would have sd!# in my text file.

How do I get this module to work? (Please bear with my ignorance.)Or, if I need to write my own code to calculate the distance between the strings, how do I go about it?
Please help!
perl_seeker:)

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